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brian mooar, nbc news, washington. >> that announcement from fed chairman bernanke sent stocks higher today. the dow picked up 92 points and finished at 10,374. the nasdaq was up 22 points on the day and the s&p gained 11 points. >>> police and demonstrators clashed today in greece. an estimated 50,000 demonstrators staged a march in athens against government austerity measures. some of the steps may include salary cuts and pension reforms. labor unions organized this protest march. things got violent for about lf an hour near the parliament. protesters hurled rocks, red paint and plastic bottles at riot police and the police responded with batons and tear gas. today the unions also called a 24-hour strike that grounded flights, shut down schools, and crippled public services. >>> coming up, the middle school student -- the controversy surrounding the middle school student who refused to standor the pledge of allegiance in montgomery county. >>> more high winds headed our way. how to prepare for power outages. >>> we might get a little bit of snow, too. bob will tell us about that. >>
brian mooar, nbc news, washington. >> that announcement from fed chairman bernanke sent stocks higher today. the dow picked up 92 points and finished at 10,374. the nasdaq was up 22 points on the day and the s&p gained 11 points. >>> police and demonstrators clashed today in greece. an estimated 50,000 demonstrators staged a march in athens against government austerity measures. some of the steps may include salary cuts and pension reforms. labor unions organized this protest...
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bernanke wÑiith his loose money policy. one question i like to ask, does the fed realize çóthe terribly destructive impact that you had on -- on savers and frugal people in this coaintry by reducing theirÑi interest incom to below, really, real negative interest rates while the crank ud sters that created the problem are being rewarded? >> and i understand the from us -- your from ustation and i do think that -- onsj of the issu that i have dÑiealt with is howe bring interest rates back to -- to a more long-term sustainable %uá)qr)Ñi extreme lilo, obv]iously, unsu)wtÑtainable le a.m. -- aÑind there are some disagreements, that's one thing about a commit phi liket( the on market committee where you can have differing views and do i share a different view. i think we should be -- going back to a more normal level sooner rare than later and as i said in my public speeches and i think i'máqsóot, my concern is that -- in terms of, the last time i voted iÑi dissçóented on usage of the word extended period. in a posi
bernanke wÑiith his loose money policy. one question i like to ask, does the fed realize çóthe terribly destructive impact that you had on -- on savers and frugal people in this coaintry by reducing theirÑi interest incom to below, really, real negative interest rates while the crank ud sters that created the problem are being rewarded? >> and i understand the from us -- your from ustation and i do think that -- onsj of the issu that i have dÑiealt with is howe bring interest rates...
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extending -- bernanke jobs version when the president was asked about when he was here asked about mitch mcconnell talking about how they can support, republicans can support nuclear energy and the president's response was, i'm paraphrasing but of course they like those are republican ideas offering in the name of bipartisanship and what's going on here is the reverse, harry reid taking out the one democratic idea. >> do you think helping small businesses grow by allowing them to write off their expenditures is going to -- something that is a democratic idea? you think that the highway trust fund extension is a uniquely space space idea? if you were to break the components of that bill individually each of those would donner strong bipartisan support. so,, i think we are in some ways over reading some of this because again, i think personally i believe that the components of this bill, several components that were in the bipartisan bill but are not in the reid bill will still be bipartisan. i think -- i don't think any of the ideas the life list here today are uniquely space ideas that h
extending -- bernanke jobs version when the president was asked about when he was here asked about mitch mcconnell talking about how they can support, republicans can support nuclear energy and the president's response was, i'm paraphrasing but of course they like those are republican ideas offering in the name of bipartisanship and what's going on here is the reverse, harry reid taking out the one democratic idea. >> do you think helping small businesses grow by allowing them to write...
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bernanke we forced their stearns shareholders from a position that i think was a high of $170 a share in january. we force them down to $2 a share because the american taxpayer money was in the bailout. and that was something that was supported by the fed, by treasury because we felt that because the taxpayer was bailing them out, that the shareholders of bear stearns should not be held harmless. now, you have a different situation here, slightly different. a number of weeks later, where we have aig going under, and these are credit default swaps so the money going into aig is going right out to the counterparties. this is a pass through and the folks on the other side are goldman sachs. that is the principle beneficiary of all this. and we don't negotiate in nickel, not a sense of what they are getting. you are in the same position. you are supposed to be negotiating on behalf of the american people. you were saying the regulations were different. let me tell you something we were changing the rules and regulations every single day. we were taking action under extraordinary circumsta
bernanke we forced their stearns shareholders from a position that i think was a high of $170 a share in january. we force them down to $2 a share because the american taxpayer money was in the bailout. and that was something that was supported by the fed, by treasury because we felt that because the taxpayer was bailing them out, that the shareholders of bear stearns should not be held harmless. now, you have a different situation here, slightly different. a number of weeks later, where we...